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Alexandru Agapie
PERSONAL
Date/Place of birth:
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27.10.1968 / Cluj-Napoca, Romania
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexandru_Agapie
http://www.ase.ro/ase/studenti/index.asp?item=Detalii%20profesori&ID=969
EDUCATION
Faculty:
Specialization:
Graduation:
PhD:
Mathematics, The University of Bucharest
Probability Theory, Stochastic Processes
1993, University Diploma in Mathematics
2002, PhD in Mathematics - Statistics and Probabilities: “Analysis of
probabilistic models used in Evolutionary Computation”- coordinator Prof.
Ioan Cuculescu.
WORKING EXPERIENCE
 2004 – to date: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Dept. of Applied Mathematics – Conferentiar
universitar since 2007 - Conferentiar is a permanent (teaching) position, equivalent to Associate Professor, C3
or W3 (www.ase.ro).
 2002 – 2004: Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Sankt Augustin, Germany
(www.ais.fraunhofer.de) – Post-Doc Researcher.
 2001 – 2002: Institute for Mathematical Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Romanian Academy,
Bucharest (www.csm.ro) – Researcher.
 1993 – 2001: National R&D Institute for Microtechnologies, Bucharest (www.imt.ro) - Researcher; Head
of Computational Intelligence Lab. since 1998.
National research experience:
 “Multi-criterial modelling of decision process under uncertainty, with application to portfolio
management”, CNCSIS PNII Program IDEI, 2009-2011, UEFISCU-CNCSIS: 878000 LEI – member of
the research team.
 “Bounded Rational Expectations and Intelligent Techniques in Relational Marketing: Estimating Finacial
Markets' Efficiency as Function of Customer Lifetime Value” - CNCSIS A Grant no. 1202/2007 –
member of the research team.
 “Stochastic Modelling and Convergence Conditions for Continuous Evolutionary Algorithms” – CNCSIS
AT Grant no. 1/2002 – project manager.
 “Bio-mimetic Computational Techniques for analysing nano-structured porous media and molecular
magnetism” – MCT contract 2000-2001 – project manager.
 “Intelligent Techniques (Genetic Algorithms, Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks) with application in Intelligent
Systems” – MCT contract 1998-1999 – project manager.
 “Enhanced Genetic Algorithms. Application to information analysis in economics” -Grant of the Romanian
Academy 3041GR/1997-1998 – project manager.
International research experience:
 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) research grant at TU Dortmund, Germany, Stochastic
Analysis and Convergence Times for Continuous Evolutionary Algorithms, December 2010-January 2011.
 National Science Foundation NATO-COBASE Grant at Computer Science, University of Montana,
Missoula, USA, Markovian Analysis of Different Types of Genetic Algorithms, June-August 2000.
 Visiting researcher of the Collaborative Research Center “Computational Intelligence” (SFB 531),
Computer Science XI, Dortmund University: September-December 1999, res. January-July 2002.
Other remarks:
 Scientific Secretary of the Romanian Society for Probability and Statistics – since 2012.
 Member of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) – since 2009.
 Expert for the National Research Council, Romania (www.cncs-uefiscdi.ro) – since 2011.
 Visiting ERASMUS-SOCRATES professor at TU Gelsenkirchen, Germany, September 2006.
 Member of the ResearchGate (www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexandru_Agapie/)
 Reviewer for international journals and conferences such as: IEEE Trans. on Evolutionary Computation,
Evolutionary Computation Journal, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, res. GECCO (Genetic
and Evolutionary Computation Congress) 1999-2004, PPSN (Parallel Problems Solving from Nature)
2000-2010, FOGA (Foundations of Genetic Algorithms) 2002.
 Invited participation at the Dagstuhl Seminar on The Theory of Evolutionary Algorithms, 2000-2002,
Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.
 Student Fellowship Award at the IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC),
Nagoya, Japan, 1996.
Linguistic competence: English (very good), German (good), French (fair)
Computer competence: Maple, Matlab, Pascal
List of publications
Books
1.
EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS – MODELING AND CONVERGENCE (in English), A. Agapie,
Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, 2007.
Journal Articles
1. CONVERGENCE OF EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS ON THE N-DIMENSIONAL CONTINUOUS SPACE,
A. Agapie, M. Agapie, G. Rudolph, G. Zbaganu, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Press, 2013, DOI:
10.1109/TCYB.2013.2257748
2. EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS FOR CONTINUOUS-SPACE OPTIMISATION, A. Agapie, M. Agapie, G.
Zbaganu, International Journal of Systems Science, Taylor & Francis, 44(3), 2013, pp.502-512.
3. SIMPLE FORM OF THE STATIONARY DISTRIBUTION FOR 3D CELLULAR AUTOMATA IN A SPECIAL
CASE, A. Agapie, Physica A (Statistical Mechanics and its Applications), Elsevier 389(13), 2010, pp. 2495-2499.
4. LIMIT BEHAVIOR OF THE EXPONENTIAL VOTER MODEL, A. Agapie, R. Hons, Ad. Agapie, Mathematical
Social Sciences, Elsevier, 59(3), 2010, pp. 271-281.
5. ESTIMATION OF DISTRIBUTION ALGORITHMS ON NON-SEPARABLE PROBLEMS, A. Agapie, International
Journal of Computer Mathematics, Taylor & Francis 87 (3), 2010, pp. 491-508.
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6. STATIONARY DISTRIBUTION FOR A MAJORITY VOTER MODEL, A. Agapie, Th. aus der Fuenten, Stochastic
Models, Taylor and Francis 24 (4), 2008, pp. 503-512.
7. TRANSITION FUNCTIONS FOR EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS ON CONTINUOUS STATE-SPACE, A.
Agapie, M. Agapie, Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms, Springer 6 (2), 2007, pp.297-315.
8. MARKOV CHAIN ANALYSIS FOR ONE-DIMENSIONAL ASYNCHRONOUS CELLULAR AUTOMATA, A.
Agapie, R.. Höns, H. Mühlenbein, Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 6(2), Springer, 2004,
pp.181-201.
9. SOFT COMPUTING MODELING OF MICROBIAL METABOLISM, R. Chiurtu, A. Agapie, M. Buzoianu, F.
Oltean, M. Giuclea, R. Vasilco, Top. Comput. Math. 9, 2003, pp.359-368.
10. THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF MUTATION-ADAPTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS, A. Agapie,
Evolutionary Computation, 9(2), 2001, MIT Press, pp.127-146.
11. GENETIC ALGORITHMS – THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, A. Agapie, International Journal of Computing
Anticipatory Systems, vol.7, 2000, pp.35-44.
12. GENETIC ALGORITHMS: THEORETICAL ASPECTS AND APPLICATIONS, A. Agapie, M. Giuclea, F.
Fagarasan, H. Dediu, Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology, vol.1, 1, 1998, pp.3-21.
13. MODELLING GENETIC ALGORITHMS: FROM MARKOV CHAINS TO DEPENDENCE WITH COMPLETE
CONNECTIONS, A. Agapie, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1498, 1998, Springer, pp.3-12.
14. GENETIC ALGORITHMS: MINIMAL CONDITIONS FOR CONVERGENCE, A. Agapie, Lecture Notes in
Computer Science 1363, Springer, 1998, pp.183-193.
15. A GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR A FITTING PROBLEM, A. Agapie, F. Fagarasan, B. Stanciulescu, in Nuclear
Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A 389, North-Holland, 1997, pp.288-292.
Conferences Papers
1.
CYCLIC AND CHAOTIC BEHAVIOR IN GENETIC ALGORITHMS, A.H. Wright, A. Agapie, in Proc. of Genetic
and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), San Francisco (CA): Morgan Kaufman, 2001, pp. 718-724.
2. CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES OF SOME MULTI-OBJECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS, G.
Rudolph, A. Agapie, in A. Zalzala et al. (eds.), Proc. of Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2000),
Piscataway (NJ): IEEE Press, 2000, pp.1010-1016.
3. GENETIC ALGORITHMS AS RANDOM SYSTEMS WITH COMPLETE CONNECTIONS, A. Agapie, in Proc. of
the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’99), Orlando, Florida, 1999, vol.1, p.770.
4. ADAPTIVE GENETIC ALGORITHMS – MODELING AND CONVERGENCE, A. Agapie, in Proc. of Congress on
Evolutionary Computation (CEC’99), Washington DC, 1999, vol.1, pp.729-735.
5. GENETIC ALGORITHMS, SCHEMATA CONSTRUCTION AND STATISTICS, A. Agapie, D. Caragea, in LNCS
series 1226, B.Reusch (Ed.), Computational Intelligence. Theory and Applications. Proc. of the Int. Conf. 5th Fuzzy
Days, Dortmund, Germany, Springer, 1997 pp.16-23.
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6. GENETIC ALGORITHMS FOR SOLVING SYSTEMS OF FUZZY RELATIONAL EQUATIONS, A. Agapie, M.
Giuclea, in Proc. of 7th International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress (IFSA’97), Prague, Czech
Republic, 1997, vol. 2, pp.379-382.
7. FORECASTING THE ECONOMIC CYCLES BASED ON AN EXTENSION OF THE HOLT-WINTERS MODEL.
A GENETIC ALGORITHMS APPROACH, Adriana Agapie, A.. Agapie, in Proc. of the IEEE/IAFE Int. Conf. On
Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering (CIFEr’97), New York, 1997, pp.96-99.
8. GA FOR DECEPTIVE PROBLEMS: INVERTING SCHEMATA BY A STATISTICAL APPROACH, A.. Agapie,
H. Dediu, in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, (ICEC’96) Nagoya, Japan,
1996, pp.336-340.
9. HIGH PERFORMANCE GA BASED ON STATISTICAL MACROEVOLUTION, M.Gh. Negoita, A. Agapie, in
Proc. of the 3rd European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing (EUFIT '95), Aachen, Germany,
1994, vol.1, pp.442-446.
10. THE FUSION OF GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND FUZZY LOGIC. APPLICATIONS IN EXPERT SYSTEMS
AND INTELLIGENT CONTROL, M.Gh.. Negoita, A.. Agapie, F.Fagarasan, in Proc. of IEEE/Nagoya University
WWW Conference on Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks/Genetic Algorithms, Nagoya, Japan, 1994, pp.130-133.
11. APPLICATIONS OF GENETIC ALGORITHMS IN SOLVING FUZZY RELATIONAL EQUATIONS, M.Gh.
Negoita, A.. Agapie, F. Fagarasan, in Proc. of the 2nd European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft
Computing (EUFIT '94), Aachen, Germany, 1994, vol.3, pp. 1126-1130.
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